Boxing back at Lucky Eagle - 2004-01-27
Boxing comes back to the Lucky Eagle Casino on Feb. 7 with Fight Night 44, presenting four fights, including a middleweight title showdown.

The central event will feature Sebastian Valdez defending his Northwest Boxing Association crown against Tim Shocks. Valdez (21-4, 7 knockouts) won two unanimous defenses of his title in his last two fights at the casino. Shocks, who has 14 career knockouts, is coming off a draw against Jaime de la Torre last November.

Troy Weaver will battle Jose Hilton Santos in one of the undercard bouts. Weaver, one of three boxing triplets, has 18 wins -- all by knockout -- in his career as a heavyweight.
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Cicutto hedges on trading - 2004-01-27
One of Don Argus's many aphorisms when he was running National Australia Bank was "we won't take our balance sheet to the casino"; by which he implied that NAB would not trade in the financial markets as principal beyond what was required to look after clients and hedge its own risk.

When he retired, Argus backed the appointment of Frank Cicutto - a conservative lifetime banker, apparently in the Argus mould - as his successor. Yesterday, Cicutto revealed himself to be a casino "whale" more in the mould of Kerry Packer than in the mould of Don "Don't Argue" Argus.
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